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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released

Posted by kdawson on from the have-at-it dept.

Lots of readers told us about the official release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (screenshots here for Ubuntu and Kubuntu). Some readers report that the distribution servers are being hammered. Here is a review of Feisty Fawn. Reader LinuxScribe sends us to LinuxPlanet for the story on a pleasant Java surprise in the release.

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  1. slashdotted... this time IRC, not HTTP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On freenode,

    #ubuntu = 1600 users
    #ubuntu-release-party = 850 users

    In the last hour, these have both gone up by around 100-200 each. 24hrs ago, #ubuntu-release-party had 20 people.

    Apparently this is a new record for the freenode IRC network!

    Forget whether or not ubuntulinux.org can remain online, everyone start praying for the poor folk at freenode :)

  2. What's new? by digitalderbs · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I always find it difficult to get a summary on the new features to help me decide if I should upgrade. These are the results from my searches :

    1. 18 month support term
    2. Better installation, includes migration tools for mail and such from Windows and linux partitions.
    3. Improved wireless support with Avahi
    4. Easier third party codec/firmware/driver installation, including Nvidia and ATi proprietary drivers and mp3 codecs.
    5. Two new games : glches and soduko
    6. Compiz/Beryl support for desktop 3D effects (not default)
    7. Beagle (search indexed), Tomboy (note tacking program, sticky notes) and F-Spot (photo management.. alternatively called G-spot, depending on the type of photos).
    8. java

    sources : blog 1, blog 2
    I already have all of these setup on Edgy, so I won't upgrade.
  3. Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University by emarkd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not the original poster here, but fwiw vmware player runs my xp partition very well from ubuntu on my laptop. I boot xp in vmware player and maximize it on one face of my beryl desktop cube and watch people do double-takes as I switch from one to the other. Fun. :)

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    Mark
  4. Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University by Eivind · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yes there is. And it's very very grandmother-friendly too. My procedure:
    • Log in, as usual.
    • There's a message for me, indicated by a slowly pulsing alert-icon. It reads: "There are updates available for Ubuntu, click here if you want to install them. So I do.
    • I'm met with the familiar update-manager, only this time it has a new button: "There is a new version of Ubuntu available, 7.1 Feisty Fawn, click here to upgrade."
    • I click, and am informed that this required administrative priviledge, and would I please enter my password to proceed.
    • I do as told, wait half an hour, and that's it.

    I've never seen anything even close to this smooth. It's not just a Linux-best. It's quite simply the best I've ever seen.

    Oh, and did I mention I lied above ? You see, all the messages mentioned was nicely localized into my native written Language, nynorsk, the least used variant of Norwegian, which perhaps half a million people in the world write. I'm impressed.

  5. Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University by ottothecow · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This is sort of what blizzard does with WoW patches. The patch downloader is a simple torrent client so all users are able to use the torrent without dealing with people who dont know what torrents are.

    Blizzard then has an http seed running. If the program determines that you are incapable of recieving a torrent (firewall or driver issues), then your entire download comes straight from blizzard's http seed. If the program is able to connect to the swarm, you then start recieving data down from the other people downloading the patch AS WELL as the blizzard seed. Likewise, if you connect a long time after the patch comes out and there is nobody left downloading the patch, you still get the data straight from blizzard without having to find the file in a different manner.

    In this model you have basically a standard server/client relationship when only one person is downloading and it scales out to a p2p model as additional people connect.

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    Bottles.
  6. Re:Why Can't Linux Developers Match OS X by Paulrothrock · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Leopard (OS X 10.5) is going to have multiple desktops in October. And the real reasons I use OS X aren't so much the interface as it's Textmate and Quicksilver. There is no text editor on any platform that can compare to TextMate, and Quicksilver is one of the greatest interface innovations since the GUI.

    Of course, they make me use Windows at work.

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    I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.